From the Field, Volume 01
The Field Documentation Reckoning: Why Your Team Would Quit Before Going Back to Paper.
Across job sites, inspections, and project teams, a generational shift is playing out - and the firms that have crossed the line aren't going back. From the Field, Volume 01.
200+ hrs
Time saved per project
Kimley-Horn
2x more
Sites visited per week
Lennar
29,600+
Reports generated
Across 4,500 projects
170,000+
Pins logged
Across 4,500 projects
“If you took SiteMarker away and told my team to go back to paper right now, half of them would probably quit.”
Jason Quick
Senior Construction Manager, BJWSA
What’s Inside
Four teams that crossed the line, and what happened next.
From the Stone Age to a system the team won't give up
Jason Quick manages 700-plus annual inspections for Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority, where documentation gaps mean compliance failures and grant funding at risk. What changed when the notebook moved to the map.
The report is a byproduct of the site visit
Donald Jones's construction administration team was spending more time describing projects than running them. Field captures now land already organized, already geo-tagged, already tied to the plan.
Double the site visits, better reporting
Earl Bailey was running land development across multiple communities with photos on a phone and notes in a notebook. Coverage suffered. What GPS-precise pins did to his week.
From survivors to leaders
Most industries trained field professionals to be documentation survivors. That era is ending. What replaces heroic individual effort, and what it does to a firm's posture.
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